Comparison

Craft Pulse vs Thanks Bud

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Craft Pulse

Quickly capture text notes and checklists from your Apple Watch directly into your Craft documents. This app is designed to help you record thoughts and tasks without interrupting your current activity, offering a seamless integration into your workflow.

Highlights
  • Capture text notes from Apple Watch
  • Add checklists directly
  • Instant synchronization with Craft
  • Live document preview
  • Designed for on-the-go use
  • Integrates with Craft API
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Craft Pulse is the fastest way to capture text into your Craft documents directly from Apple Watch. Type or dictate a note, and it is instantly added to the top of your selected page. The app also displays a live preview of the document, making it easy to confirm that new entries were received successfully. Craft Pulse is designed for moments when opening your iPhone or Mac breaks your flow. Whether you are walking, commuting, in a conversation, or in a meeting, you can quickly record thoughts and tasks without interruption. This lightweight utility works with text and checklists, giving you a flexible way to send ideas, reminders, and todos into your workspace. Notes are transmitted using the Craft API so they remain within your existing workflow.

About

Thanks Bud

Easily remember names and key details about people you know. Quickly search for individuals using partial information and access their details before social events. The app prioritizes privacy and stores data locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Save names and one key detail
  • Search with partial names and details
  • Organize people for events
  • View relationships between people
  • Optional phone number and email
  • Share people or groups
  • Local data storage
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Think back to the last wedding, school event, or neighborhood dinner. You knew their face and plenty about them. But when you needed a name, you had to wing it. Thanks Bud keeps names, relationships, and useful details together. Add a person with a name and one useful line. When you are about to see them, search a few letters, a typo, a saved headline, a connection, or a city. Open Thanks Bud before you say hello. Glance at the name, the people around them, and the line you wrote to bring the person back into focus. HOW IT HELPS - A name and one headline are enough to save someone. - Add or edit a person in one consistent form. Update their notes as you learn more about them. - Search works with partial names, typos, saved headlines, connection names and relationships, and saved cities. - Search Contacts, choose one person, then review before saving. Apple gives Thanks Bud only the contact you choose. - See local times for people’s saved cities together on Home or inside a group. Open a part of the day to see who is there. - See the people around someone, so names and relationships make sense together. - Switch Everyone or a group to Network to explore the connections you saved. A group’s network shows only its members and the saved connections between them. - Sort Everyone or a group by most viewed, recently added, city, or name. - Save an optional phone number and email address, then call, message, or email from the person’s card. Thanks Bud keeps no communication history. - Share one person or several people as a file. For one card, you choose the details and direct connections. When you share several cards, their connection rows stay private. QUIET UNTIL YOU NEED IT Thanks Bud sends no reminders, keeps no score, and never tells you that a relationship is overdue. Open it when you need a name, then carry on. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Thanks Bud stores your data on your iPhone. The app has no account, advertising, analytics, or tracking. The developer collects no data. Apple shows the contact picker and gives Thanks Bud only the person you choose. Thanks Bud does not request ongoing access to your contact list or change Apple Contacts. For Home’s weather and daylight, Thanks Bud sends Apple Weather the published coordinates of the city on Your Card. The request does not include a person’s name or your physical location. Thanks Bud never asks for location permission. When Thanks Bud prepares a recognition photo, it makes a smaller copy and removes private metadata. It does not change the original item in Photos. If you share a file or save a backup, you choose the action and the content. A new iPhone set up from a backup of your old one should bring your people across. You can also save a backup file yourself. FREE TO USE Cards, search, built-in groups, sharing, and backups are free. A one-time $7.99 US purchase unlocks custom groups you can name. There is no subscription. Thanks Bud is made for the people just outside your inner circle: relatives, neighbors, school parents, colleagues, and the familiar faces you want to greet by name.

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Thanks Bud4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Craft Pulse at none against Thanks Bud's 1. Craft Pulse also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Thanks Bud's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Thanks Bud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Craft Pulse asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Craft Pulse against 5.0 for Thanks Bud. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Craft Pulse ships an update every 7 months, Thanks Bud every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Craft Pulse versus Thanks Bud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCraft PulseThanks Bud
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFTRBND, LLCNikhil Daftary

Customer experience

Craft Pulse

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Thanks Bud

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Craft Pulse

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Thanks Bud

One-time1
  • Custom groups$7.99

Questions

Is Craft Pulse free?
Craft Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thanks Bud free?
Thanks Bud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Craft Pulse or Thanks Bud?
Craft Pulse and Thanks Bud are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Craft Pulse or Thanks Bud have ads?
Neither Craft Pulse nor Thanks Bud shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Craft Pulse or Thanks Bud?
Craft Pulse ships an update every 7 months, and Thanks Bud every 10 days. Most recently, Craft Pulse was updated on October 22, 2026 and Thanks Bud on October 16, 2026.

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